Athens was the sacred city of the goddess Athena. During the 5th century, under the statesman Pericles, many temples were being built in the Acropolis, as a new peak of culture and power was rising. ...
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Athens and Sparta, despite their common Hellenic backgrounds, where very different. Sparta, was a war based society that placed the greatest emphasis on the ideas of strength and discipline. In sta...
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In our study of ancient Greece, specifically the city-states of Athens and Sparta, we learned about the political, economic and cultural systems developed and used by the Greeks from approximately 700...
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Athens and Sparta
Sparta and Athens represent opposite poles of the social and political development of the Greek city-state. Between the two, there were similarities and differences. Each city-st...
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Greece's mountainous terrain and islands separated Athens from Sparta because it made it very hard to travel. This separation caused them to develop differently, socially and politically. These differ...
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Elena Becatoros, an editor in London and a former reporter in the Balkans for The Associated Press, has been named AP's chief of southeastern European news in Athens.Her duties will include directi...
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The popular, outspoken head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church was buried Thursday in a state funeral attended by thousands of mourners and top Greek officials.Mourners bearing flags clapped and ...
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A clutch of modern pagans honored Zeus at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Athens on Sunday _ the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Greek religion was outlawed by...
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The Greek capital hardly springs immediately to mind as the home for a shrine to the 19th century Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.
But letters from Victor Hugo, Ru...
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Athens (dpa) - Government representatives, corporate executives,
academics and IT experts gathered in Athens Monday to discuss online
access and security at a conference on ...
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Athens (dpa) - About 20,000 officers have been deployed from
Athens and other Greek cities to prevent violence for the Euroleague
final four basketball tournament on Friday....
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Athens (dpa) - Radical leftist group Revolutionary Struggle
claimed responsibility Wednesday for a hand grenade attack on a
police station in Athens last month, and warned t...
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Immigrant groups on Friday opened the first formal Islamic prayer site to operate in Athens since rule by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire ended more than 170 years ago.Plans by Greece's government ...
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Athens (dpa) - Transport workers across Greece called a 24-hour
strike for Tuesday that was expected to disrupt 100 flights at Athens
International Airport and strand touris...
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Athens (dpa) - Riot police in Athens will be using paintball guns
for the first time if trouble breaks out between fans of Liverpool
and AC Milan attending Wednesday's Champ...
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Athens and the Temple of Parthenon
Becatoros: AP chief in Athens
